The Odra Opole Gazette
Squad10 Mar 2036
Aleksander Fietko damages knee ligaments — 34 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 34 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Match8 Mar 2036
The wait goes on for Odra Opole
9 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
The dugout10 Mar 2036
Wiktor Kowal keeps the receipts
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Odra Opole may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Market10 Mar 2036
Sander Linnes asks to leave Odra Opole
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad10 Mar 2036
A falling-out at Odra Opole
Aleksander Fietko and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad10 Mar 2036
Benjamin Mitchell gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Benjamin Mitchell has just signed for Odra Opole, and for once the answer mattered.
Squad10 Mar 2036
Przemysław Misiak falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
The dugout10 Mar 2036
The manager makes an example of Filip Borowski
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Market10 Mar 2036
Odra Opole and Filip Borowski are talking past each other
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
In brief
- Player ratings Przemysław Misiak stands above it all
- The dugout Somebody else is better right now than Wiktor Kowal
- The dugout Half-satisfied: Interim Coach on the draw